Wordnik.com: Faux amis: Comments

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:53:56 +0000

I second (third?) c_b and sionnach, padawan. It's always interesting to compare similar lists, too!

Comment by sionnach, about 1 year ago

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:43:21 +0000

Padawan: yes, please keep adding to your list! My Spanish is not all that good, so there are a lot of words that I will not know.

padawan's list

Comment by chained_bear, about 1 year ago

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 02:19:27 +0000

Absolutely, padawan! Definitely keep working on it.

sionnach, once again... If you keep hogging all the genius, what will the rest of us do?! *rolls eyes*

Comment by padawan, about 1 year ago

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:45:00 +0000

i made one of the english words that are false friends to spanish, and added the definitions in both languages to each word. now that i found this one i don't know if i should keep working on mine...

Comment by sionnach, about 1 year ago

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:38:59 +0000

I'm still working on the French ones. Spanish still to come.

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:01:45 +0000

Great idea, sionnach. :-)

Comment by misterpolly, about 1 year ago

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:56:19 +0000

Fun list for those who know German and French. A nice Italian "falso amico" is "morbido" = soft (morboso = morbid).
A friend who worked for Lever Bros. tells me that they tried (unsuccessfully) to market a deodorant spray in Germany with the unhappy name of "Body Mist". A little homework might have saved them a lot of money - not even a free gift would have helped.